- ISO 3166
EH- Primary locale
ar-EH- Currency
- MAD · Moroccan Dirham
- Region
- not grouped
Western Sahara
Western Sahara has 652.3K people. Arabic is the most widely spoken language at 100%, one of 1 language CLDR lists here. Arabic is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to ar-EH.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
—
No World Bank internet estimate for this territory, so the online market cannot be sized here. CLDR puts the population at 652.3K.
Income per person
—
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
Can pay online
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No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown here.
Languages
1
Arabic 100%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
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Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
50%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in Western Sahara
share of 652.3K people
- Arabicofficial100%652.3K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against ar-EH, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
6
Translator catalog must define all categories. Engineering must use Intl.PluralRules.
Script family
Arabic
Bundle a Noto-class webfont that covers this script. OS defaults vary.
Reading direction
Right-to-left
Use logical CSS properties (padding-inline-start, etc.). Wrap interpolated LTR with <bdi> or FSI/PDI.
Date
21 أبريل 2026
Short: 21/4/2026
Time
6:30 م
Week starts Mon
Currency
1,234.56 د.م.
1,234.56 in MAD · Moroccan Dirham
The engineering behind the flags: Bidirectional text: why the dollar sign wanders in an RTL string · RTL layouts: what flips and what doesn't · Font fallback: why the OS picks the wrong glyphs for this script · Plural rules: why each category needs its own translation